Reader Christy recently asked me how to get tweets marked with a specific hash tag to appear on her Twitter page. Unfortunately, there's no way to do that because you have to be following someone to have their tweets appear on your timeline and there's nothing to stop someone you don't follow from using that tag.
(If you have no idea what a hash tag is, read my earlier post,
The Twitter Hash Tag: What Is It and How Do You Use It?)
For example, I created the #tech4ludds hash tag to mark any posts about this blog. Some of my followers have (kindly) retweeted those posts, so some of THEIR followers would have seen it. One of them may choose to retweet it, or write something related using the tag but, if I don't follow that person, I wouldn't automatically see that tweet on my Twitter home page.
However, if you do want to track all tweets using a particular tag, here are three ways you can do so.
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